heya chat! i love silly doodle requests so much so please, if you have any thing you want to see, feel free to ask!!! i prefer starkid and hatchet feild related ones at the moment eeing how rotted my brain is that it is nothing more then a pile pf mush 😔
whenever his photos from THIS particular era pops up on my pinterest feed, it just blows me away for some reason. jeff blim with short hair is very pretty too!!!
things i drew instead of revising aka sketch dump aka handwriting reveal ig
(like 13 images and its tall so its under the cut lol)
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- so much grace chasity i only included two tho bcs they all are basically the same :')
- LAUTSKITY BC HAS ME IN A CHOKEHOLD ft. trying to figure out how to draw petes fucking hairline
- richie! because hes so fun to draw??? i love all his hair spikys
- some of the nerd trio
- unofficially sponsored by stabilo pens cuz i love them <33
just watched spies are forever for the first time. I knew this was sad and gay but holy SHIT I did not think it would make me genuinely scream out in agony and make me feel sick to my stomach the way that it did
With TGWDLM's reprise on the horizon, I've been seeing a couple of posts about the Guy timeloop theory. Which is great! Especially with the Reprise trailer there's a lot more evidence and fun to be had with it. (I personally subscribe to the in-universe Pokey sponsored musical myself though.)
But I did want to check in with the fandom to make sure people are aware that there is a timeloop musical in the Hatchetfield Trilogy. One that I feel a lot of people might miss because you're designed to forget the biggest piece of evidence unless you're paying attention. Unless you rewatch it.
If you don't already know where I'm going with this, do me a favor. Right now. Open up Black Friday on youtube, or even pull up the cast album and click the very very first song (Prologue). You only have to play it for a few seconds at most. Now, tell me what you hear.
Because the answer should be ticking.
The musical starts, with ticking.
Which, ok, the countdown for renowned American holiday, Black Friday, is something that we do (unfortunately) see in the real world. People wait outside for doors to open, for sales to drop etc.
The thing is, this ticking and the musical accompaniment that eventually starts up is meant to parallel the exact same ticking and theme we hear again at the end of the night. At the end of the musical. If it was just supposed to be a thematic opening title sequence made for the pro-shot release, then why is it included on the cast album? The other two musicals in the trilogy don't include their title card sequence in their cast album. Prologue's inclusion tells me that parallel is purposeful. This is supposed to tell us something.
But ok. Musicals are meant to carry musical themes throughout them. That could reasonably explain the theme being played at the beginning and at the end. Just a thematic nod. The ticking itself could be explained by it referencing the count down to the sale of Wiggly (and the resulting chaos) in the beginning and the countdown to flip the day at the end. Both are reasonable and would fit within the story Black Friday tells.
So if I want to seal this theory, I should probably be bringing something else to the table. If only I had a song... with lyrics that loop. With lyrics that literally ask the question: Will tomorrow come today?
Oh. Huh. Would you look at that...
Well since you already either have the cast album up, or the musical itself up, go ahead and do yourself a favor and listen to What if Tomorrow Comes again. Besides the fact that Kendall absolutely kills it (the whole cast does actually), really listen to the lyrics. Because you'll probably notice little gems such as:
Do you all see the memories, tomorrow, reminds me.
What if tomorrow comes and takes the night away?
And of course:
Will tomorrow come today?
If you still want more, trust me, I got it. Take a look at this:
The choreography in this moment specifically has almost everyone on stage look down at their hands, almost as if 'waking up', almost as if realizing something. Remembering something. (God I wish I could get my hands on a copy of the digital ticket and see the full number. Kendall gets her deserved spotlight in this moment for the pro-shot but I just love this musical so much and would love to see the full stage and every little detail they put into the show.)
So. If you're now on board with where I'm going with this, then I suppose we need a reason for the loop to be occurring in the first place. Something or someone needs to have triggered it.
Black Friday is specifically and unapologetically Wiggly's musical. The Lang brothers have confirmed and reinforced that fact on various livestreams. Also, I mean, we see him so much. So while The Bastard of Time and Space would be a fitting culprit for trapping a bunch of people into repeating the same horrible day over and over, I don't think that's what we're meant to be inferring.
So if it's not Tinky, then who else would even fit as a suspect?
Gosh, if only there was one other character who every time their powers have been described by the Lang brother's, either in livestreams or narrated in released media, as having the ability to 'reach through space and time' and oh...
Oh.
Oh pookie. You really are the biggest walking tragedy Hatchetfield has ever seen.
Now. To be clear. I don't think Lex triggers the loop on purpose or even fully by herself. I mean, she really wouldn't know how nor do I believe she would even want to. But through existing lore we already know that Lex's powers will end up triggering on their own when Hannah's life is in danger. (Read about said lore and the trivia question it stems from in this wonderful post here.) And I don't know about you, but I can't think of a more dangerous and lethal situation than the possibility of nuclear retaliation.
Let's combine that knowledge with the fact that Hannah's powers have been confirmed by Willy boy himself to be alike to a nuclear power plant in terms of potential. Throw in two absolutely terrified magical sisters whose goal is not to be separated, and I think there's a very reasonable case to be made that Lex's powers to bend space and time probably activated the moment they heard that whirring noise at the end of the night.
That they not only activated, but were actually heightened to such a degree by Hannah's own powers that it kick-started a timeloop, resetting everyone back to the start of the day without any memory of the tragedy that awaits them in the mall. Every time they do reach the end of the night, Hannah realizes the loop and helps everyone else to see it too. That the real reason the survivors all huddle around and wait for the night to flip over together is because it hasn't yet.
It’s just so tragic on both sides and both ways the timeline could split. Duke watching her die, or forgetting she ever existed. Miss Holloway begging the Lords for just a few more minutes with Duke as she dies. Having to grow old with her loss, or getting married and having a family. Naming his daughter after her without truly knowing why. Or doing everything he can to bring her back. He uses the book and fails. He uses the book and succeeds. Either way, it’s wrong. And the apocalypse begins anew.
On the other hand, she lives. Miss Holloway kills Wilbur Cross and has to explain to Duke, who forgets. Time and time again. They date, it doesn’t work out. She stays away from him after countless attempts at something more. She watches him get married. She gives his kids free pie when they stop by the diner. His kids grow until they’re older than her. She’s at his deathbed or she gets the news from a friend. He remembers her only at the end. The timeline resets. He falls for her over and over and over. She never stopped falling. Duke is the most selfless person in Hatchetfield. Miss Holloway has given up everything time and time again to save the timeline. Doesn’t she deserve to be selfish just this once?
Soulmates in more ways than one, but doomed to never be together by a decision made years ago.
additionally, shout out to people who use it/its alongside other pronouns but never referred to as it/its because people prefer the more "socially acceptable" pronouns. I see you. I feel you.
The fact that Perky's Buds of all episodes comes right after Honey Queen and right before Abstinence Camp is so wild. "Here, have a fun little story about magic weed and a vaguely cultish flock of birds! Yeah, it'll fit so naturally right between the serious, lore-heavy episode about a homicidal beauty pageant for the eldritch incarnation of horror and the hour-long critique of abstinence-only education and shame as a motivation!"
Finding it hilarious that The Fool is canonically worse than The Tower. The worst card to pull in tarot has been bested by Theodore fucking Spankoffski